8 TB HDD on the way

Dec 29, 2017, 4:31 PM

I'm tired of juggling around files on these four 500GB-1TB drives I have in my PC. Right now I have a total of around 3TB scattered on 5 HDD's. I'm going to consolidate it all into one massive storage drive and sell the other drives.

Eventually my new PC will have a 1TB m2 hdd and then the 8TB storage drive. Eventually. Below is what I'm thinking about....thoughts and suggestions welcomed. Was seriously conflicted about the cpu and MB chipset. Went with the i9 and LGA2066 instead of the z170/370. Picked a 10 core CPU that seems to give best balance of GHZ with multithread performance. Could get more cores but a slower clock speed. Or less cores and a slightly higher clock speed with the z170. In theory this build should be super fast. GPU is questionable because bitcoin has fvckid up the prices. Might leave that off until bitcoin crashes and GPU's get dirt cheap. Can use my current ones for a while longer.

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Computer Cases

COOLER MASTER CM Storm Scout 2 Advanced SGC-2100-KWN3 Midnight Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

CPU Fans & Heatsinks

Noctua NH-D9DX i4 3U 92mm SSO2 For Intel LGA2011-0 & LGA2011-3, LGA1356, LGA1366 Sockets, 1x92mm NF-A9 PWM Quiet CPU Cooler

Desktop Graphics Cards

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6183-KR, 8GB GDDR5X, LED, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC)

Desktop Memory

G.SKILL TridentZ Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3400 (PC4 27200) Intel Z170 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3400C16Q-32GTZ

Intel Motherboards

ASRock Fatal1ty X299 Professional Gaming i9 LGA 2066 Intel X299 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

2017 Tom's Hardware Editor Recommended, 10Gb/s LAN, 13 Phase

Internal SSDs

Samsung SM961 1TB (NVMe) SM961 MZVKW1T0HMLH-00000 MZ-VKW1T00 Gen3 M.2 80mm PCIe 3.0 x4 1TB SSD

Power Supplies

EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 220-G2-0850-XR 80+ GOLD 850W Fully Modular EVGA ECO Mode Includes FREE Power On Self Tester Power Supply

Processors - Desktops

Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X 10-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2066 140W BX80673I97900X Desktop Processor

Thermal Compound / Grease

Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G

*note - Will reuse optical cd/dvd/blu-ray burner/reader

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Evidently Intel has released CPU's with like 18-20+ cores or something. BUT, with that many the clock speeds drop way down into the 2Ghz range. The older and cheaper Z170 chipset with the cheaper CPU's have like 4 cores max but 4ghz clock speeds. Not good for video encoding but awesome for everything else. So I went with 10 cores and the X299 chipset. The other advantage of the X299 is it has more PCIE bandwidth for m2 drives and graphics cards. With the CPU I chose, the max turbo freq is 4.3ghz. So if you're using single thread apps, it will hum. But will drop to 3.3ghz when using all 10 cores (video editing, etc.).

If you're really into video editing, I'd consider (money notwithstanding) the Intel Core i9-7980XE Skylake X 18-Core 2.6 GHz LGA 2066 165W BX80673I97980X Desktop Processor. It will kill most other processors with video editing. Even the AMD threadripper CPU's. ALso Intel's most expensive desktop processor ever at $2k

8 TB HDD on the way

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Hardest part was deciding on the cpu/MB combo

Re: Hardest part was deciding on the cpu/MB combo

Here's what I'm typing on now.....

don't forget to be wiping hard drive before son turns on

My hard drive is as pure as the driven snow.***

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